Media ramped up effort to tie Trump to Project 2025 following Biden debate disaster, Harris embraces attack

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As the nation focused on the implosion of President Biden's candidacy beginning last month, legacy media organizations jumped on a conservative group's plan they warn will be implemented in a hypothetical second term for former President Trump.

Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project and launched in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation, is widely described as a conservative blueprint for a future Republican administration to overhaul various parts of the federal government. Trump has distanced himself from it, calling elements of the plan as "ridiculous" and "abysmal," but liberal pundits insist a vote for Trump is a vote for Project 2025.

Despite Project 2025 being in the public domain for more than 15 months, liberal media outlets trained an especially intense spotlight on it following Biden's infamous debate debacle, which was also when Democrats and their media allies embraced it as an anti-Trump talking point.

TRUMP SAYS PROJECT 2025 'GOES WAY TOO FAR' WITH ABORTION RESTRICTIONS

Within 25 days, from June 1 to June 26, the day before the debate, Project 2025 was mentioned on CNN 36 times, according to Grabien transcripts, including reruns. But in the days following the debate from June 28 to July 24, CNN mentioned it a whopping 463 times.

MSNBC had already allotted ample coverage to Project 2025, mentioning it 288 times in the 25 days